AFRICAN-AMERICAN HERITAGE HISTORIC ANNAPOLIS FOUNDATION WALKING TOUR 410-267-7619 Inside this brochure you’ll find... 410-268-5576 18 Pinkney Street, Shiplap House, Annapolis Historic Annapolis Foundation, • A COMPREHENSIVE TRIP PLANNER: 77 Main Street, Annapolis HISTORIC LONDON TOWN & GARDENS frican Americans have played an integral part 410-222-1919 There’s so much to see and do in the City… and in ANNAPOLIS MARITIME MUSEUM in the physical and cultural landscape of Anne 839 Londontown Road, Edgewater 410-268-1802 the countryside. Spend a day…or spend a week! 133 Bay Shore Drive, Annapolis Arundel County and the City of Annapolis for over GALESVILLE HERITAGE MUSEUM 410-867-2648 350 years. ANNAPOLIS & ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY 988 Main Street, Galesville • MAPS AND FACTS: CONFERENCE & VISITORS BUREAU 410-280-0445 Learn what there is to see…and how to get there— KUNTA KINTE-ALEX HALEY FOUNDATION We invite you to walk in their footsteps through 26 West Street, Annapolis 410-841-6920 on foot, by bus, or by car. 31 Old Solomons Island Road, Annapolis ANNAPOLIS, LONDON TOWN & history. Learn about farmers, artisans, mariners, SOUTH COUNTY HERITAGE AREA OUR LOCAL LEGACY TOURS, merchants, resistance leaders, inventors, politicians, 410-222-1805 AFRICAN-AMERICAN HERITAGE TOURS • PLAN THE DETAILS OF YOUR VISIT HERE: 44 Calvert Street, Arundel Center and soldiers. Visit sites where enslaved Africans first 410-863-8878 Review contact information and additional resources. ANNAPOLIS THREE CENTURIES TOURS PO Box 6087, Annapolis landed on our shores, and sites where they were sold 410-263-5401 MARYLAND OFFICE OF 48 Maryland Avenue, Annapolis into bondage. Learn about historic neighborhoods TOURISM DEVELOPMENT that provided a sense of community, and the BANNEKER-DOUGLASS MUSEUM 1-800-MD-IS-FUN 410-216-6180 217 E. Redwood Street, Baltimore churches that formed the heart of those “...I felt I should be 84 Franklin Street, Annapolis MARYLAND STATE ARCHIVES/ communities. See where African Americans nowhere else in the BLACKS OF THE CHESAPEAKE HALL OF RECORDS 410-267-7416 410-260-6400 labored, where many raised families, where some world except standing Annapolis 350 Rowe Boulevard, Annapolis managed to escape slavery, and where others CAPTAIN SALEM AVERY HOUSE MARYLAND STATE HOUSE changed the course of America’s history. on a pier in Annapolis— 410-867-4486 410-974-3400 West Shady Side Road, Shady Side 91 State House Circle ,Annapolis and I was; it was two DISCOVER ANNAPOLIS TOURS U.S. NAVA L ACADEMY TOURS Many were brought here during colonial times as 410-626-6000 410-263-6933 hundred years to the Visitor’s Center, 26 West Street, Armel-Leftwich Visitor Center, Annapolis slaves from West Africa and the Caribbean. Their Annapolis numbers in Anne Arundel County once exceeded day after the Lord FREDERICK DOUGLASS MUSEUM those of European Americans. Their labor created a 410-267-6920 Ligonier had landed.” 3200 Wayman Avenue, Highland Beach strong local economy, the rise of a wealthy “planter” —ALEX HALEY class, and America’s early infrastructure. Roots Enslaved and, later, free African Americans worked on farms and in towns, at the U.S. Naval Academy, Waterman, Annapolis City Dock 26 West Street • Annapolis, MD 21401 and in the maritime industry. They practiced various 410-280-0445 • Fax: 410-263-9591 • www.goannapolis.org trades, set up businesses, built churches, supported schools, created communities, and served in wars. Following emancipation, they fought against persecution and “Jim Crow” laws. In recent times 1-800-MDISFUN they fought for desegregation and equality in the Not all of these sites are open to the general public, but all are accessible for exterior views. Please respect the privacy of private residents. Information on public access can be provided from those sites where a public number is listed. courts, the classroom, and the workplace. We are not responsible for changes that may occur. This publication has been financed in part with State funds from the Maryland Heritage Areas Authority, an instrumentality of the State of Maryland. However, the contents and opinions do not necessarily reflect the views or The African-American story is one of hardship, policies of the Maryland Heritage Areas Authority. Also financed in part by funds generated through the Anne Arundel County and Annapolis hotel tax. courage, and resilience—rooted in family, spiritual PHOTOS COURTESY OF: Phillip & Rachel Brown Collection, AAACCVB, AA County Office of Planning & Zoning, faith, and community. Imagine their lives as you visit Independence Publishing Inc., Vincent O. Leggett, Phillip L. Brown, & Charles H. Bohl. Portrait of Frederick Douglass Photo: courtesy of Special Collections (Mary A. Dodge Collection, MSASC-564). Tonging Oyster Boats at City Dock historic sites and take engaging tours. Their legacy w/African American Waterman Photo: courtesy of Special Collections (Thomas Baden Collection). Alex Haley Photo: courtesy of William A. Haley Collection. Also Deborah Greene; Dwight Blackshear; and Janice Hayes- endures and continues to inspire us all. Williams Collections. This publication was produced by the Annapolis & Anne Arundel County Conference & St. Mary ’s Color Visitors Bureau and the Kunta Kinte-Alex Haley Foundation. Design by: The Souza Agency, Annapolis, MD. -1- ed School MORNING AFTERNOON Return to the Archives or Law Library, visit another genealogy research center, or KUNTA KINTE-ALEX HALEY MEMORIAL explore some interesting African-American sites in downtown Annapolis… Annapolis City Dock • 410-841-6920 xplore, discover, and experience the rich The Memorial consists of a four-piece sculpture grouping of Alex Haley reading to KUETHE LIBRARY: Historical and Genealogical Research Center three children of diverse ethnicities, a Story Wall, and a Compass Rose. Haley, the 5 Crain Highway, SE, Glen Burnie (20 min. north of Annapolis) • 410-760-9679 history and legacy of African Americans in father of the popular genealogy movement and author of the Pulitzer prize-winning This library includes the holdings of both the Anne Arrundell County Historical Annapolis and Anne Arundel County. Select from novel Roots, traced his ancestry to Kunta Kinte, an enslaved African brought to Society and the Anne Arundel Genealogical Society. Holdings of most interest to Annapolis in 1767 aboard the ship, the Lord Ligonier. descendants of slaves doing research on local former owner-families. Nominal a diverse menu of discovery packages or create fee for non-members. your own plan. This trip planner guide will help get MARYLAND STATE ARCHIVES 350 Rowe Boulevard, Annapolis • 410-260-6400 ANNAPOLIS you started on an exciting journey into the past. Located two miles from the City Dock, the Archives houses records from the INNER WEST STREET AFRICAN-AMERICAN HERITAGE WALKING TOUR colony’s founding in 1634 to the present. Here is where Alex Haley discovered (See map on page 11) his family connection to Annapolis. African-American records include A manumissions, certificates of freedom, court papers, an 1831 census of free St. Anne’s Cemetery, on Northwest and Calvert Streets, was the only public burial ground in Annapolis from the late 18th until the mid-19th centuries; Seven Great One-Day Heritage Discovery blacks, chattel records, runaway dockets, slave statistics, newspapers, military records (including U.S. Colored Troops muster roles), bounty rolls, U.S. Census established when burial space at St. Anne’s Church on Church Circle in Packages of Things to See and Do records for Maryland, and church records. Call for hours. Annapolis reached capacity; John Maynard, members of the Butler and Bishop Roots: families, and other early African-American families are buried here. Adventures for Genealogy Lovers MARYLAND STATE LAW LIBRARY GENEALOGY COLLECTION B New Beginnings: 361 Rowe Boulevard, Robert C. Murphy Courts of Appeal Building, Annapolis Stanton School and Community Center, 92 West Washington Street, Communities after the Civil War 410-260-1430; 410-260-1571 (TTY) 410-263-7966, listed on National Register of Historic Places, opened in the 19th Established in 1827, the State Law Library houses a Local History and Genealogy century. Today this former African-American school is a community center. The History, Gardens, and Nature Trails Collection, which complements material available at the State Archives across the original building was constructed of lumber salvaged from Camp Parole, a Civil street. Holdings include Maryland census schedules, Baltimore Sun newspapers War camp outside Annapolis. Edwin Stanton, Secretary of War, was instrumental Plantations and Maritime Villages (1837 to date), county histories, family genealogies, research guides, rare books, in securing the lumber. It’s located in the African-American neighborhood of Clay early maps, and other documents. Open to the public. Street, formerly “Brick Street,” site of a colonial brickyard owned by slaveholder Urban Living – Historic Annapolis Edward Dorsey. Dorsey bricks were used to build the early State House and HELEN AVALYNNE TAWES GARDEN other colonial Annapolis structures. Between 1885-1930, the neighborhood Behind the Scenes and on the Front changed from one of scattered tenements, coal yards, and flats, to a community Lines of War and Politics around the corner from the State Law Library near the Tawes Building, Annapolis • 410-260-8189 of over 200 houses and 20 stores. Freedom Grove, just beyond the A Day at the Beach This five-acre garden, named after the wife of a Maryland governor, includes neighborhood at Adams Park Learning Center, honors local past 20th Century ponds, a stream, and plants representing Maryland’s diverse landscapes. Open presidents of the NAACP. daily from dawn to dusk. The nearby Tawes Building cafeteria KEY TO AFRICAN-AMERICAN ATTRACTIONS C is open from 7:30 am – 3 pm. Loew’s Hotel Site, 126 West Street, was once the Greyhound bus station in Annapolis. A plaque at the hotel honors the five Annapolitans who led a Archaeology Memorial/Plaques Slave Sale Site November 1960 sit-in to desegregate the station’s restaurant.